Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-04-25
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An Interesting Discourse by the Me-
FastOr Rev. DR.. Reed-The ssKadesl

An Interesting Discourse by the New
rastor Rev. DR.. Reed-The ssKadesh-
barnea'' of the Church.
The large congregation that attended Trim
ity N. E. church yesterday morning listened
with deep interest to a very able discourse
by the new pastor, Rev. DIR. Reed. The
preacher selected as the basis of his discourse
the last clause of Deuteronomy, 1st chapter,
18th verse: "And we came. to Kadeshbar-
| nea." After briefly referring to the location
| of Kadeshbarnea, and its being the camping
grounds on two occasions of the children of
| Israel in their peregrinations through the will
derness from whence they expected to make
their departure for the land of promise, the
preacher spoke in substance as follows: On
arriving at Kadeshbarnea spys' were sent out
| who travelled over the land and brought back
goodly report. But the people were report
ed as giants, and they said we are not able
to go up and possess the land. They had for
gotten that God had been leading them
| through all these many years, and Caleb and
Joshua alone were confident of their ability
| under the guidance of God to go forward
and possess the land. Then they turned
back into the wilderness, forgetting Gods
promises and only Caleb and Joshua were
permitted to pass over into thu goodly
land.
Applying the action of the Israelites to the
Christian church the speaker said: The gene
raj church came to its Kadeshbarnea about
the third century. At that time hope and
faith and dependence upon God seemed to
have gone out from the people and the church
became corrupt and SO remained until awak-
ened by the trumpet voice of Martin Luther.
Later the Protestant church came to ka-
deshbarnea and was paralyzed for centuries
until John Wesley arose and woke the slum-
how 10 To nf IT.
Applying the lessons of the past to the
present age and our own nation the follow
ing thoughts were elucidated: We have
been Christian people and Christian State
and the question is whether the American
nation shall continue to be Christian State,
strictly observe the Christian Sabbath or
whether it shall go to ruin and disaster.
There is one great power to be dreaded IN
the nation, and that is the rum power. 1t IS
no secret that it is already great political
power of the nation, and there are some
faint-hearted ones who say we cannot WIN
stand this great power for evil. Then there
are the antagonisms between labor and capt.
tai, and then some who think THAT these can
not be overcome. But say, taking counsel
with God, we can overcome them ALL Let |
the ffty-fve million people of this nation
stand against God, yet let one heroic soul
stand up with God at his side and he is in
the majority. So say that if the church
of Jesus Christ in America will be true its
Kadeshbarnea will be synonym of advance.
as Christians, as patriots, let us make this
Kadeshbarnea synonym of victory and
glorious triumph.
So this church has come to its Kadeshbar
nea. When you talked about erecting this
beautiful house of worship you saw giants in
the way, but taking counsel of God and not
of your fears, the work was accomplished.
The result has been years of temporal and
spiritual prosperity. You have lost your
great leader, and new leader has come to
you, and you stand at your Kadeshbarnea.
We must go forward or go backward. Shall
this be year of more gracious triumphs, or
shall it be year of defeats? want you to
settle this question this morning. 1 believe
the field is still white for the harvest. God
help you that this shall be
the Kadeshbarnea from which you
shall go forward. The Kadeshbarneas
of our spiritual life are constantly occurring.
We must advance retreat. I have stood
there time and again and stand there to-
day, and for me it is to advance. Does it
mean this to you, young men and young
women and you of advanced ysarsa Let us
look to God this morning that he give us the
command to go forward.
In the evening another large audience lis
tened to very interesting discourse from
DR.. Reed, his subject being ''Jonah's trip to
Nineveh and his trials on the way"